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avaistheone1

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5. How come there was not enough money or political will to bring a single-payer health care system to

Reply to JI7 (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 3, 2013, 03:31 AM

Sep 2013

the U.S.?

Every year well over 45,000 die from lack of access to medical care in our country. Where are the politicians taking the bully pulpit to defend these lives at all costs?

This is too much hypocrisy for me.

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All that money that they plan to spend "punishing" Syria would be better off spent fixing Detroit... [View all] MrScorpio Sep 2013 OP

there is enough money to do both JI7 Sep 2013 #1

Then divert the "Syrian" share of that money Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #2

the problem is not lack of money JI7 Sep 2013 #3

I understand that Art_from_Ark Sep 2013 #4

How come there was not enough money or political will to bring a single-payer health care system to avaistheone1 Sep 2013 #5

it's not just the politicians, many people don't want it which is why they vote for people like the JI7 Sep 2013 #6

One answer is that universal health care would not reward politicians who became stockholders in AnotherMcIntosh Sep 2013 #7

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